Psalms 103:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.”
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BSBPD
“The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 103:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:14Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- Job 27:13This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
- Psalms 9:9The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
- Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Psalms 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
- Psalms 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
- Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
- Psalms 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
- Psalms 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
- Proverbs 22:22Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
- Proverbs 22:23for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
- Isaiah 58:6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
- Jeremiah 7:6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
- Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Micah 3:2You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
- Luke 14:22‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
- James 2:6But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
- James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
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